Word: gone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Near the end of the second year in high school, I secured a desk position in a library, and it was then that thoughts of college entered my head. But they came by accident, for no one in our family had ever gone to college, and such an education was for rich men's sons, according to the traditions at our house. One evening, as I sat puzzling over a lesson for the morrow, Professor Ira N. Hollis, who is now President of Worcester Polytechnic Institute, came and sat on my desk. During our conversation I told him that...
...gone by now," confessed another, "but I have two boys taking entrance examinations. Just as soon as they finish...
News finally leaked from Gardone, where the estate of the aesthetic, erratic, eremitic Gabriele d'Annunzio (officially, il Principe di Monte Nevoso - Prince of the Snowy Mountain) is situate. It appeared that the Premier had gone on a visit to d'Annunzio, that, when they met, they had fallen upon each other's necks, kissed. D'Annunzio is reported to have exclaimed: "A new era begins!" And Mussolini was stated to have replied: "Even this hour has at last come to pass...
...were pictured in an exotic atmosphere, impregnated with incense, conducting mystical rites in ancient choir stalls, etc. Once a telegram, signed by both, was sent to the King. Then, Mussolini had gone to Gardone to induce d'Annunzio to be present at the Silver Jubilee of King Vittorio Emmanuele's reign. But newspapers recalled a recent speech of the poet airman in which he had said...
...Coffin went to the General Assembly, as he had often gone before, one of the many commissioners from the Presbytery of New York. He returned the acknowledged leader of the Liberal elements in his Church, and the potential leader of Liberals in all Evangelical Churches...